Devyn’s Reviews > So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848 > Status Update

Great excitement was being felt from Washinton over Tayler's exposed position on the Nueces River, the president had called for additional troops.
"It seems," Hitchcock noted, "that the ridiculousness of the plan to send 800 or 1200 men to make war on a civilized nation of 8,000,000 inhabitants has occurred to others besides me."